“Tarty” side?

She doesn’t even have a vagina.

Or nipples.

The Sun’s “Makers Mattel say Black Canary Barbie [] is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name. But religious group Christian Voice said…” is the typical “fair and balanced” construct that we see in the Murdock-run press all the time. “New Controversy! These guys say X, but these other guys say Y.” Even when X is a fact or a scientific theory that was peer-reviewed, or whatever. You have to have two people with conflicting claims in every story. It proves how fair and balanced you are.

Given that Black Canary Barbie is dressed in a very slight variant of the costume that the Black Canary comic book character has worn since WWII, I think it is safe to say that the doll is in fact based on the character of the same name that’s been around for 6 and a half decades.

Copying their construct “It is based, according to Mattel, on a DC comic superhero.” and then ridiculing an organization for what the Sun says they say about it, is I don’t know, a little to Murdockesque for my tastes.

Just my 2 bits worth.

Amen…er..so to speak.

In fact, the amazing thing about these so called “Christian” organizations is that what they’re doing, that is, nitpicking at others over piddly things, makes them anything but Christian.

And as you said they’re probably drawing funds from Bush’s illegal “Faith Based Initiatives” program, which effectively establishes an office of the US Government to regulate religious belief systems.

Now if someone could just explain to me why Obama declared he would not only extend this nightmare program, but “expand” it, I’d really appreciate it. Because thats another one of his recent decisions that has left me saying “huhhhh?”.

Yep! Jezebel reader here too. Off topic a little, but the view flap today…just wish Woopie had read the story in AlterNet about the Ohio town that has denied blacks city water for decades. Offered some lame excuse about they didn’t ask for it in the right way. http://www.alternet.org/water/91498/

Personally I don’t really care about what other people do for their kicks as long as everyone involved wants to be kicked.

jezebel.com/360899/this-fall-barbie-will-fight-the-red-coats-and-the-apocalypse

There is a really interesting book on what the author calls, “murketing”. It’s a deep look at not just the commercial world, but church world and political world (and their complete overlap).

This book is called: Buying In, The Secrect Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker of the NYTimes magazine.

It clearly lays out a level of manipulation unseen before the time that humans had functional MRIs and corporate/political “anthropologists” to see into our brains and devle into our deepest hopes, fears and desires. It expalins the barbie, current political campaigns and mega churches.